. Rural bird life : being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . oken by the cries, start-ling and strange, of the birds or beasts of night. .... the restless day Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep. All diurnal birds have retired to rest—a rest how-ever but of a few short hours duration, for ere long birdlife with its ups and downs, cares and anxieties, will beonce again in full vigour. The above remarks apply to an inland pastoral dis-trict, and he who roams in the haunts of the featheredtribes in the morning and evening hours, be his r
. Rural bird life : being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . oken by the cries, start-ling and strange, of the birds or beasts of night. .... the restless day Expiring, lays the warbling world asleep. All diurnal birds have retired to rest—a rest how-ever but of a few short hours duration, for ere long birdlife with its ups and downs, cares and anxieties, will beonce again in full vigour. The above remarks apply to an inland pastoral dis-trict, and he who roams in the haunts of the featheredtribes in the morning and evening hours, be his rambleson the sea coast, lonely moor, forest, swamp, or plain,will not fail to find his stroll abounding with the interest-ing habits, many probably unknown before, of thesefeathered creatures. My aim in giving thee, gentlereader, this brief and hasty sketch of bird life, is in thehope that if thou hast not yet visited the haunts of birdsat these times thou wilt be led to do so; for no matterunder what circumstances thou art placed, thou wilt notfail to find abundant sources of pleasure and profit by THE SONG-THRUSH. In the shrubberies, the woods, and, in summer, thefields and the hedgerows, in fact, wherever we find theBlackbird, we may pretty well rest assured of findingthe Song-thrush too. The haunt of the Song-thrush,par- excellence, however, is amongst the bright and glossyfoliage of the evergreens. There they delight to hide,although not so shy and retiring as the Blackbird ; therethey build their nests in greatest numbers, amongst theperennial foliage, and there they draw at nightfall torepose in warmth and safety. Like the Blackbird, the Song-thrush is not a gre-garious species, nor can it be justly called a social one,for it is rarely we see more than a pair together save atfeeding time. Then, however, they are drawn togetherby one common object, and once that object attainedthey retire to their life of solitude again. You can bestobserve the actions of the
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